Hiring in music is broken in both directions. Artists with a release coming scroll hashtags, DM strangers, and hope the person whose feed looks good actually shows up and delivers. The people behind the camera, the brushes, and the racks get found by luck instead of by work. The Shot List fixes the finding: a searchable database of videographers, photographers, makeup artists, and stylists who shoot music, filterable by city, style, genre, and budget, with portfolios, rates, and real briefs up front.
AUSTERE started as a magazine. Years of issues and shoots meant collaborating with hundreds of photographers, videographers, makeup artists, and stylists before any of this had a name. The rolodex started there, one collaboration at a time, and kept growing through founder Natasha Brito’s years as a creative director at Sony Music, crewing shoots for artists at every level. It just never had anywhere to live.
The Shot List comes from AUSTERE, the music branding agency that magazine grew into, and Artist House, a community of 10,000+ working musicians.
Natasha built it because the rolodex problem never went away: the right people existed, and there was still nowhere to look them up. This database is that rolodex, opened up.
Every profile on The Shot List is reviewed by a real person before it goes live, and the AUSTERE Vetted badge means a creative director looked at the work by hand and would put their name on it. A database is only as strong as its weakest result, so we guard the results. That’s the whole business.
Search your city or the next tour stop. See portfolios, reels, credits, and rates before you reach out. Send one structured brief and book directly. Free, and we take no cut of the work.
List free: portfolio, reel, rates, cities. Artists arrive with real briefs and real budgets. Pro and Spotlight exist when you want more visibility, and your profile never stops being free.